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George Conway, nan erstwhile Republican turned Donald Trump professional and ex-husband of nan US president’s 2016 campaign head and elder adjutant Kellyanne Conway, is moving for Congress.
Conway, a blimpish lawyer who helped commencement nan Lincoln Project, a salient anti-Trump group of Republicans, launched his bid arsenic a Democrat seeking to correspond New York’s 12th legislature district, successful what will beryllium a crowded section of contenders.
“We person a corrupt president, a mendacious president, a criminal president whose masked agents are disappearing group from our streets, who’s breaking world law, and he’s moving our national authorities for illustration a mob protection racket,” Conway said successful his video announcement connected Tuesday.
“I cognize really to conflict these people. They are corrupt, amoral people. They will extremity astatine thing to rig nan strategy for themselves. I’ve been fighting Trump for years and thing will extremity me.”
Conway enters a competitory title for nan Manhattan spot of nan retiring Jerry Nadler. As of December, location were astatine slightest nine group successful nan running, including Jack Schlossberg, nan societal media characteristic whose grandfather is nan erstwhile president John F Kennedy; nan New York authorities assembly members Alex Bores and Micah Lasher; and nan activistic Cameron Kasky, a subsister of nan 2018 Parkland schoolhouse shooting.
Early successful Trump’s first term, Conway had been considered arsenic a imaginable solicitor general; his woman astatine nan time, Kellyanne, was a elder White location adviser. But he grew progressively captious of Trump and his administration, yet becoming 1 of nan astir vocal and salient anti-Trump critics successful nan Republican party, moreover arsenic Kellyanne remained a cardinal advisor to nan president.
Ahead of nan 2020 election, Conway co-founded the Lincoln Project, a blimpish anti-Trump group. But successful August 2020, Conway announced that he was stepping distant from his domiciled location “to give much clip to family matters”.
Around nan aforesaid time, nan couple’s teenage daughter, Claudia Conway, had been making headlines pinch outspoken online statements against her parents’ governmental views. Kellyanne besides announced that she would beryllium leaving her domiciled wrong nan Trump administration.
In March 2023, George and Kellyanne announced their divorce. She remains an state of Trump and spoke at nan 2024 Republican nationalist convention.
In his run announcement video connected Tuesday, George said that arsenic “a erstwhile Republican, now a Democrat, I fought Trump publically successful each measurement I could and I paid a price. I’ll ne'er regret opinionated up to Trump.
“I don’t for illustration what he’s done to our awesome country,” he added. “And now I’m moving for Congress to return nan conflict straight backmost to him connected your behalf, connected nan behalf of New Yorkers to whom I beryllium truthful overmuch – to protect nan basal authorities and basal economical needs of each New Yorkers, to make our federation amended than it was before, to constitute caller laws that will safeguard our populist truthful that we don’t extremity up facing autocracy ever again.
“This is nary mean time, and I will not beryllium an mean personnel of Congress.”
